“I think it’s more than time for some accountability at NPR,” Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) says in a video explaining how tax-funded National Public Radio’s (NPR) content is being bought and paid for by “left-wing mega-donors” and exposing the far-left bias of its CEO.
In a video posted to X.com Tuesday, Sen. Cruz cited an example of the biased content produced by the wealthy leftist-controlled NPR:
“Last Congress, I put out a detailed report how NPR took millions in earmarked donations from left-wing mega-donors for vary specific coverage. After receiving those donations, NPR turned out content precisely mirroring its donors’ agendas.
“Likewise, the Congressionally-charted independent television service paid for documentaries like ‘Racist Trees’ to appear on PBS.”
Public media like NPR are bound by law to be non-bias, Sen. Cruz notes:
“The Communications Act requires public media entities like NPR to strictly adhere to ‘objectivity and balance in all programs, or series of programs of a controversial nature.’
“Unfortunately, NPR does not.”
Cruz went on to point out the hypocrisy of NPR CEO Katherine Maher’s claims of objectivity:
“NPR CEO Katherine Maher continues to deny that NPR has a story selection problem, even when senior editors are resigning because the bias is so overwhelming.
“Yet, NPR continues to have a dedicated news desk for climate and for race – both of which are propped up by liberal mega-donors.”
“This is the same woman who, on January 20, 2020, months before the death of George Floyd, tweeted:
“‘Yes, the North. Yes, all of us. Yes, America. Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations. Yes, on this day.’”
Maher’s comment is the last post in a racist, self-loathing 14-part Twitter thread she ends by calling for reparations.
“I grew up feeling superior (hah, how white of me) because I was from New England and my part of the country didn’t have slaves, or so I’d been taught,” Maher chides in one post.
“I think about this often. I think about it when I go home and see a pineapple door knocker on a New England saltbox. I think about it when I consider my Irish immigrant ancestors entering a society built on slavery capital. I think about it anytime people say, not the North,” Maher writes in the post preceding her “collective sin” entry.
In March, the NPR CEO was called to account for the views expressed in her lengthy Twitter rant, when she was grilled by Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) at a House hearing on the need to defund U.S. public media and save American taxpayers a half-billion dollars annually.
Responding to Rep. Gills questions, Maher denied the plain-text assertions she made in her written comments.
The Communications Act of 1934 requires NPR to maintain strict objectivity and balance in all programs, particularly those addressing controversial topics.
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) May 6, 2025
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